# Vertex Ventures US > Vertex Ventures US is an early stage venture capital firm that backs enterprising founders building infrastructure and SaaS companies. Vertex Ventures US is an early stage venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and part of the global Vertex Ventures network. It is not affiliated with Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (the biotechnology company, NASDAQ: VRTX) or Vertex, Inc. (the tax technology company, NASDAQ: VERX). Contact: office@vvus.com Full URL list: https://vvus.com/sitemap-index.xml ## Key pages - [Vertex Ventures US](https://vvus.com/): Vertex Ventures US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software. - [Let's keep in touch](https://vvus.com/contact/): Visit our office in Palo Alto, California - [Vertex Ventures US - Frequently Asked Questions](https://vvus.com/faq/): What kinds of startups Vertex Ventures US invests in, what our investment process looks like, and more. - [Legal](https://vvus.com/legal/) - [News from Vertex Ventures US](https://vvus.com/news/): The latest news and happenings from the firm. - [Vertex Ventures US Portfolio](https://vvus.com/portfolio/): The companies that Vertex Ventures US partners with and invests in. - [Privacy Policy](https://vvus.com/privacy-policy/) - [Meet our Team](https://vvus.com/team/) - [Why Vertex US](https://vvus.com/why-vertex/) ## Team - [In Sik Rhee](https://vvus.com/team/in-sik-rhee/): General Partner - [Jonathan Heiliger](https://vvus.com/team/jonathan-heiliger/): General Partner - [Mina Ortiz](https://vvus.com/team/mina-ortiz/): Executive Assistant ## News and insights - [Reinventing SRE with AI: Our Investment in Cleric](https://vvus.com/news/announcing-our-investment-in-cleric/): We’re excited to share that Vertex Ventures US has led a new $5.5M seed round in Cleric , bringing total funding to $9.8M alongside our friends at Zetta Ventur… - [We have 200M Reasons to be Excited About Enterprise Founders](https://vvus.com/news/we-have-200m-reasons-to-be-excited-about-enterprise-founders/): As founder-operators turned investors at Vertex Ventures US we approach our work with the belief that while our commitment to any single business can never equ… - [THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE TECH 512: Smart Money Makes the World Go Around](https://vvus.com/news/this-week-in-enterprise-tech-512/): Brian Chee (@advnetlab) and Lou Maresca (@loumm) cover top tech news of the day, including new zero trust features in Windows 11, and interview VVUS Partner, J… - [RSA 2022: Conversation and Cocktails hosted by Vertex US and Redpoint Ventures](https://vvus.com/news/rsa-2022-conversation-and-cocktails-hosted-by-vertex-us-and-redpoint-ventures/): For the first time in 2 years, we were back in-person at RSA. It was an exciting week where we saw old friends and made new ones, sharing actionable insights a… - [Teresa Dietrich, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Stack Overflow, on hiring engineers](https://vvus.com/news/teresa-dietrich-chief-product-and-technology-officer-at-stack-overflow-on-hiring-engineers/): So, given the realities of today’s workforce, how should founders, who are often deeply technical, think about hiring in tech today? Here are some of Teresa’s … - [How to Build a Marketing Function from Scratch: an AMA with Julie Herendeen](https://vvus.com/news/how-to-build-a-marketing-function-from-scratch-an-ama-with-julie-herendeen/): A marketing team has to start somewhere, but that somewhere is a moving target. As Julie Herendeen, Board Member and former CMO, notes, every company is differ… - [Welcome to our Vertex US Venture Fellows](https://vvus.com/news/welcome-to-our-vertex-us-venture-fellows/): We’re excited to introduce Julie Hereenden, Teresa Dietrich, Adam Zimman, Ed Park, and Germaine Yokoyama-Heiliger as our first cohort of Vertex Fellows. - [What I look for in today’s entrepreneurs](https://vvus.com/news/what-i-look-for-in-today-s-entrepreneurs/): Software architects today depend on hundreds, if not thousands, of disparate microservices to build complex workflows. Read more about our investment in Orkes. - [Our Investment in Orkes: $9.3M in Funding to Optimize Workflow and Microservices at Scale](https://vvus.com/news/our-investment-in-orkes-9-3m-in-funding-to-optimize-workflow-and-microservices-at-scale/): Software architects today depend on hundreds, if not thousands, of disparate microservices to build complex workflows. Read more about our investment in Orkes. - [KSOC’s $6 Million Seed Round: the Kubernetes Detection and Response All Developers Need](https://vvus.com/news/ksoc-s-6-million-seed-round-the-kubernetes-detection-and-response-all-developers-need/): We’re excited to support Kubernetes Security Operations Center (KSOC) in its $6M seed round along with .406 Ventures, Gula Tech Ventures, and well-renowned gro… - [Reinventing the Interview Experience: Announcing Metaview's $6 Million Seed Round](https://vvus.com/news/reinventing-the-interview-experience-announcing-metaviews-dollar6m-seed-round/): Talent is the single largest budget item for most companies today. The typical business spends nearly 70 percent of its expenses on hiring and retaining employ… - [Webinar: Scaling and Managing Your GTM Team with Vertex Ventures, Okta, Hasura, VMware](https://vvus.com/news/Webinar-Scaling-Managing-GTM-Team/): Product-led growth doesn’t absolve technical founders from designing a sophisticated go-to-market strategy. In this session hosted by Heavybit, Vertex Ventures… - [Elotl Raises $5 Million to Build Nodeless Kubernetes and Simplify Cloud Infrastructure for Developers](https://vvus.com/news/elotl-raises-5-million-to-build-nodeless-kubernetes-and-simplify-cloud-infrastructure-for-developers/): We’re thrilled to share that Elotl, a pioneering startup that commoditizes cloud compute and infrastructure deployment, has raised $5 million in seed funding t… - [Marketing Like an Engineer with Gonto](https://vvus.com/news/marketing-like-an-engineer-with-gonto/): Marketing Like an Engineer with Gonto Img - [Is it possible to modernize the data pipeline without hiring a new data team?](https://vvus.com/news/is-it-possible-to-modernize-the-data-pipeline-without-hiring-a-new-data-team/): Is it possible to modernize the data pipeline without hiring a new data team? Img ## Portfolio companies - [Bellhop](https://vvus.com/portfolio/bellhop/): Bellhop automates customer service and support using artificial intelligence and natural language processing to deliver unprecedented precision and quality. Be… - [Ambi Robotics](https://vvus.com/portfolio/ambi-robotics/): Adaptable AI robotics to simplify the supply chain. Modular, scalable robotic systems customized to your needs. Pick-and-Pack millions of unique items on day o… - [Broker Buddha](https://vvus.com/portfolio/broker-buddha/): Broker Buddha helps commercial insurance brokers grow sales by simplifying the application and renewal process for you and your clients. - [Cakewalk](https://vvus.com/portfolio/cakewalk/): Cakewalk is here to simplify IAM and manage Identity Governance on behalf of our customers. Simplicity is, first and foremost, a product principle: building a … - [Clearpol](https://vvus.com/portfolio/clearpol/): Your AI Ally in Post-Acute & Long-Term Care. Clearpol empowers post-acute and long-term care providers to navigate complexities with ease. Move beyond manual p… - [Cleric](https://vvus.com/portfolio/cleric/): Turn reactive ops into proactive engineering. Cleric learns your systems, traces incidents to their root causes, and transforms noisy alerts into engineering i… - [Cloud Academy](https://vvus.com/portfolio/cloud-academy/): We help both companies and individual users learn everything about Cloud Computing, providing the best content and training in the industry. Cloud Academy was … - [Cloudera](https://vvus.com/portfolio/cloudera/): Cloudera is the first big data platform company to provide Apache Hadoop based software, support, and services to enterprise customers. - [Coolan](https://vvus.com/portfolio/coolan/): Revolutionizing the enterprise hardware space and changing traditional methods for purchasing, debugging, and optimizing infrastructure through intelligent sof… - [Cosmonic](https://vvus.com/portfolio/cosmonic/): Distributed Application Runtime for the Enterprise. Build your functions and services in the language you want and run them securely everywhere with WebAssembl… - [Couchbase](https://vvus.com/portfolio/couchbase/): Couchbase is a high performance NoSQL distributed database used to support internet-scale applications that require massive real time data access. - [Cyberhaven](https://vvus.com/portfolio/cyberhaven/): Cyberhaven’s Dynamic Data Tracing technology is a transformative approach to preventing IP theft and other insider threats. DLP is effective for only 1% of com… - [DOR](https://vvus.com/portfolio/dor/): Dor is a tool for the evolving retail landscape. It’s a wireless, thermal-sensing people counter and analytics dashboard. - [Desktop Metal](https://vvus.com/portfolio/desktop-metal/): Founded in 2015 by leaders in advanced manufacturing, materials science, and robotics, Desktop Metal is accelerating the transformation of manufacturing with e… - [Docker](https://vvus.com/portfolio/docker/): Docker takes away repetitive, mundane configuration tasks and is used throughout the development lifecycle for fast, easy and portable application development … - [Elotl](https://vvus.com/portfolio/elotl/): Run applications in the cloud without managing servers or clusters. Elotl’s Nodeless Kubernetes Engine reduces your infrastructure cost, simplifies operations,… - [Evisort](https://vvus.com/portfolio/evisort/): Evisort automates your entire contracting process from a single platform. Acquired by Workday (2024). - [Experify](https://vvus.com/portfolio/experify/): Experience products authentically. Experify connects you with people in your neighborhood who already own products you consider buying. Get honest opinions and… - [OLIX](https://vvus.com/portfolio/flux-computing/): The demand for AI will soon exceed our current computing capacity by a massive margin. Who can supply this much computing power is the trillion-dollar question… - [Fyde](https://vvus.com/portfolio/fyde/): Fyde is the first company to secure the modern app-driven lifestyle. Whether you’re banking, checking email, shopping, or browsing, we’ve got you covered. - [Ona](https://vvus.com/portfolio/gitpod/): Ona (formerly Gitpod) is the mission control for your personal team of software engineering agents working across the entire software development lifecycle. On… - [HUMAN Security](https://vvus.com/portfolio/human-security/): Since 2012, HUMAN Security has safeguarded every step of the customer’s online journey defending against bots, fraud, and digital risk. We verify over 20 trill… - [Hasura](https://vvus.com/portfolio/hasura/): The Hasura GraphQL engine gives you instant, high performance GraphQL for any Postgres app without you having to write any backend code. - [Hedvig](https://vvus.com/portfolio/hedvig/): Hedvig provides software-defined storage for enterprises building private, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments. The Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform is the … - [Higharc](https://vvus.com/portfolio/higharc/): Concept to construction in days, not months. Design, sell in 3D, and get permit-ready construction documents — all in one place. - [Juno](https://vvus.com/portfolio/juno/): Juno creates new sustainable apartment buildings for the future American city. The first end-to-end platform to connect and streamline the entire real estate d… - [RAD Security](https://vvus.com/portfolio/ksoc/): RAD Security (formerly known as KSOC) is a cloud native security company that empowers engineering and security teams to push boundaries, build technology and … - [LaunchDarkly](https://vvus.com/portfolio/launchdarkly/): Feature Management Platform. Ship Fast. Rest Easy. Get total control of your code to ship quicker, reduce risk, and reclaim your nights and weekends. - [LeaseLock](https://vvus.com/portfolio/leaselock/): Eliminating Deposits For Good. Powered by insurance technology, LeaseLock eliminates security deposits from apartment operating infrastructure. - [LightBeam](https://vvus.com/portfolio/lightbeam/): LightBeam leverages the best that the AI community has to offer and turn that into something that helps organizations automate their privacy controls and secur… - [Loris](https://vvus.com/portfolio/loris/): Real-time coaching technology for customer support agents. Loris enables your teams to increase productivity, efficiency and the quality of their chat-based co… - [Lumigo](https://vvus.com/portfolio/lumigo/): Monitoring & Debugging for Modern Cloud Applications. Lumigo lets developers effortlessly find & fix issues in serverless and microservices environments. Acqui… - [Metaview](https://vvus.com/portfolio/metaview/): Metaview helps make every interview an amazing interview. The result is happier candidates, less bias, and a more efficient hiring process - [MightySignal](https://vvus.com/portfolio/mightysignal/): MightySignal provides detailed and accurate mobile data, giving sales and marketing teams the knowledge and efficiency to close more deals faster as they focus… - [Northflank](https://vvus.com/portfolio/northflank/): Northflank's mission is to empower developers to focus on creating applications by removing infrastructure complexity. By making workloads—not infrastructure—t… - [OpsLevel](https://vvus.com/portfolio/opslevel/): Track the microservices and systems behind your products, the teams that support them, and the tools and practices that keep them up and running. - [Orkes](https://vvus.com/portfolio/orkes/): Microservices and workflow orchestration at scale. Orkes Platform is a cloud hosted, fully managed version of Netflix Conductor offering full compatibility wit… - [Permiso](https://vvus.com/portfolio/permiso/): Founded by ex-Mandiant and FireEye product and engineering leadership - Permiso detects and protects against human, non-human, and AI identity threats across c… - [Pronto](https://vvus.com/portfolio/pronto/): Unlock the power of your partner ecosystem. Automate and manage ecosystem operations. Accelerate GTM efforts. Win more deals. - [Quilt Data](https://vvus.com/portfolio/quilt-data/): Quilt transforms scattered, unlabeled data into reproducible, discoverable, and trusted datasets in the cloud. Discover drugs, targets, and models faster - [Recce](https://vvus.com/portfolio/recce/): Recce (pronounced "wreck-E") is short for "reconnaissance," a British military term that refers to the act of scouting ahead to gather information before takin… - [Riley AI](https://vvus.com/portfolio/riley-ai/): Riley AI is transforming how companies unlock growth by redefining product discovery. As a personalized Product Insights assistant powered by adaptive artifici… - [Onshore](https://vvus.com/portfolio/sprx-tax/): Onshore (formerly SPRX Tax) uses AI to help companies of all sizes complete the R&D tax credit process in days, rather than weeks. Customers get a complete rep… - [SWARM Biotactics](https://vvus.com/portfolio/swarm-biotactics/): SWARM Biotactics is developing a new category of robotics: living, intelligent systems based on insects – equipped with custom-designed backpacks for control, … - [Savant Labs](https://vvus.com/portfolio/savant-labs/): Savant is building the industry’s leading no-code Analytics Automation platform, combining data integration, advanced analysis, and RPA into one tool to stream… - [Scuba Analytics](https://vvus.com/portfolio/scuba-analytics/): Transform customer experience with continuous intelligence. Connect customer journeys and digital interactions in real-time - [Simppler](https://vvus.com/portfolio/simppler/): Modern intranet software that simplifies employee communication. The easiest way to connect and align your distributed workforce - [Smithery](https://vvus.com/portfolio/smithery/): The future of the internet will be dominated by tool calls, not clicks. Smithery is accelerating the economy of AI-native services, building the infrastructure… - [SpaceIQ](https://vvus.com/portfolio/spaceiq/): SpaceIQ is a SaaS platform that helps companies create and maintain the optimal workplace. We replace paper, emails, spreadsheets or legacy enterprise software… - [Testlio](https://vvus.com/portfolio/testlio/): Remote, burstable software testing Testlio is the originator of networked testing. Our award-winning combination of platform, freelancers, and services enables… - [Trustero](https://vvus.com/portfolio/trustero/): Compliance as a Service - establish and manage regulatory compliance by undertaking vulnerability assessments and security risk analyses across your extended e… - [Tulip](https://vvus.com/portfolio/tulip/): A connected data and process management platform that connects the people, machines, devices, and the systems used in a production or logistics process in a ph… - [UnitySCM](https://vvus.com/portfolio/unityscm/): Supply Chain Data Cloud. Data across your entire supply chain, easily collected and organized in one place. Reduce inventory levels and waste with insight into… - [Upsolver](https://vvus.com/portfolio/upsolver/): Effortless data lake processing. Upsolver's cloud-native platform abstracts the engineering complexity of data lake ingestion, storage and ETL. - [Valtix](https://vvus.com/portfolio/valtix/): Never maintain security infrastructure again. Valtix protects your applications and services with the first multi-cloud Network Security Platform delivered as … - [Vectara](https://vvus.com/portfolio/vectara/): The AI-powered platform for text search. Harness the power of advanced neural networks to search your textual data with unrivaled accuracy. - [VGS](https://vvus.com/portfolio/very-good-security/): Founded in 2015, VGS is the world's leader in payment tokenization and trusted credential management platform, depended on by Fortune 500 companies, merchants,… - [Vintra](https://vvus.com/portfolio/vintra/): Vintra delivers AI-powered video analytics solutions that transform any real-world video into actionable, tailored and trusted intelligence. - [Vividly](https://vvus.com/portfolio/Vividly/): Trade Promotion Management Built By CPG For CPG. Powerful data analytics engine that understands the world of trade management for indirect-heavy businesses. - [ZEPL](https://vvus.com/portfolio/zepl/): Zepl is the company behind Apache Zeppelin - A popular open source data notebook that enables data engineers and scientists to create interactive and collabora… ## Elsewhere - https://www.linkedin.com/company/vvus/ - https://twitter.com/vertexvus - https://medium.com/vvus - https://www.youtube.com/@vvus